machine learning

In this week's roundup of global robotics developments, we look at Google's self-critiquing AI, Baidu's open-source self-driving research, and the U.S. Marine Corps' disposable drones, among other things.

Pick and place for e-commerce order fulfillment has a new option, with RightHand Robotics' RightPick system. The newly funded company combines gripper and sensor technology with machine learning to handle a wide range of items.

AI rules will be needed to standardize safeguards and liability, just as global regulations have developed for drones and self-driving cars. Even if sentient robots won't be around anytime soon, policy makers need to consider human-robot interactions.